Metropolitan commissioner Cressida Dick said 120 detectives would hunt down the city’s most violent gang members.

The move came after two more murders bringing the total in the capital this year to 55.

University student Israel Ogunsola, 18, was stabbed to death in Hackney, east London, while in Clapton a 53-year-old man died after being punched in a betting shop row.

Israel was a Facebook friend of 17-year-old youth mentor Tanesha Melbourne who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Tottenham on Monday.

“We will be looking to target the people we know are the most dangerous”

Cressida Dick

Ms Dick said: “We will be looking to target the people we know are the most dangerous and get the intelligence to our local officers which they can use in a fast-time way.

“We will be encouraging them to not just deal with those people for violent crime or carrying a knife but for associated crime. Or indeed any crime. If we can get people locked up, if we know they are a prolific knife criminal or a very violent person, then that is all to the good.’’

US gangster Al Capone dodged justice for multiple murders before he was finally jailed for tax evasion.

Tottenham Labour MP David Lammy told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme drugs can be ordered on social networking sites with the same ease as buying a pizza on Deliveroo.

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ACTION: Cressida Dick said 120 detectives would hunt down the city’s most violent gang members

Yesterday the London Assembly ordered mayor Sadiq Khan to attend an urgent meeting.

Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith accused him of being “missing in action”.

In a tense interview on LBC radio yesterday Mr Khan admitted he had not spoken to any of the bereaved families.